The Modern farmer

by: National Federation of Colored Farmers

Publication date: 1929-1936

Topics: Agriculture, African Americans, African American Farmers, Periodicals, Agriculture -- Periodicals

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn., and Chicago, Ill., National federation of colored farmers, inc.

Collection: cornell

Digitizing sponsor: Cornell University Library

Contributor: Cornell University Library

Contributor usage rights: See terms

Language: English

Volume: v.1-8 (Mar 1929-Jan 1936)

Modern Farmer was one of the only serial publications published in the Depression-era United States that was aimed at African-American farmers. It was published between 1929-1949 by the National Federation of Colored Farmers (NFCF), an organization which formed local chapters of buying and selling distribution cooperatives for African-American farmers and their goods at a time when prevailing Jim Crow laws made such efforts dangerous. Editor James P. Davis was the president of the NFCF, Head Field Officer the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and was also a member of President Roosevelt’s “Black Cabinet.”

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Associated-names: National Federation of Colored Farmers

Call number: 31924069770653

Call-number: 31924069770653

Copy-specific-information: Missing issues: v. 2 no. 9 (Nov 1930); v. 3 no. 2 (Apr 1931). Note: in v. 7 (May 1934-Jan 1935) issue numbers skip from 4 to 8 but volume is complete.